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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Both Xvid and DivX (version 4+) are implementations of the ISO MPEG-4 standard (note that there are many other coding formats that use this same standard). Thus, use ’-c:v mpeg4’ to encode in these formats. The default fourcc stored in an MPEG-4-coded file will be ’FMP4’. If you want a different fourcc, use the ’-vtag’ option. E.g., ’-vtag xvid’ will force the fourcc ’xvid’ to be stored as the video fourcc rather than the default.

well i think i got it figured out.. vlc continued encoding, and i got video but no audio. i tried several common audio formats but vlc would error out saying "your installation of ffmpeg is crippled". i finally settled on AC3 which i hope makes the xbox happy. i'm serving files for an xbox using minidlna.

Since you are streaming to an XBox, have you tried transcoding to mp4? I have some dvd's ripped with handbrake that I ripped to mp4 and they work fine with the ps3, not sure about XBox as mine doesn't see my server.

so these are the file structures the xbox will play, unfortunately my install of vlc, and ffmpeg are limited, so i will get the manual slackbuilds for both, and make sure the proper options are installed.

in order for the xbox to see your media, you need to be running a dlna server such as miniDNLA.

so these are the file structures the xbox will play, unfortunately my install of vlc, and ffmpeg are limited, so i will get the manual slackbuilds for both, and make sure the proper options are installed.

in order for the xbox to see your media, you need to be running a dlna server such as miniDNLA.

Perhaps you have installed the version of my VLC package which I host on connie.slackware.com. I am not allowed to host software which "infringes" on US software patents on that US-baseded server. Therefor that VLC package is unable to ENcode mp3 and aac audio (although it can DEcode those formats just fine).

so these are the file structures the xbox will play, unfortunately my install of vlc, and ffmpeg are limited, so i will get the manual slackbuilds for both, and make sure the proper options are installed.

in order for the xbox to see your media, you need to be running a dlna server such as miniDNLA.